Events

A casual weekly meeting of poets and the poetry-curious started in fall 2024. We gather to share poetry—our own and others, classics to hot-off-the-press—in a comfy corner of the Coburg Commons Bookstore & Community Center. Read if you like, or just listen and enjoy. , ...

The Humble Poets’ Open Mic will be at The Stacks Coffeehouse on the last Sunday of each month, 4:00-6:00pm. The featured reader for May is Frederick Livingston. We are encouraging poets and storytellers to come share their works, and musical accompaniments are welcome as well. The address is 1831 N. Killingsworth , ...

A casual weekly meeting of poets and the poetry-curious started in fall 2024. We gather to share poetry—our own and others, classics to hot-off-the-press—in a comfy corner of the Coburg Commons Bookstore & Community Center. Read if you like, or just listen and enjoy. , ...

Share your words in sweet community at our monthly open mic emceed by spoken word poet Jorah LaFleur. No matter your genre or form – poetry, fiction, storytelling, spoken word, or prose – you’re invited to share your work in our monthly open mic. Hear what your fellow wordsmiths have been working on and support your li , ...

Efraín M. Díaz-Horna was born in Talara, Peru. He was awarded a full scholarship to study at Mt. Angel College in Oregon, where he received his bachelor’s degree in Sociology. He then returned to Peru where he worked in the land reform program. Two and a half years later, Efraín returned to the United States and , ...

A casual weekly meeting of poets and the poetry-curious started in fall 2024. We gather to share poetry—our own and others, classics to hot-off-the-press—in a comfy corner of the Coburg Commons Bookstore & Community Center. Read if you like, or just listen and enjoy. , ...

Featuring Sherri Levine and Carolyn Adams Sherri Levine is a poet, educator, mental health advocate, and squirrel lover living in Portland, OR. Her poem, “Facedown,” won the Lois Cranston Memorial Prize (Calyx) and she won First Prize (Poet’s Choice) in the Oregon Poetry Association Biannual Contest. Her work has been , ...

In conjunction with the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, poet Mary Christine Delea is leading a free online workshop. Participants will read and briefly discuss some Sandburg poems, as well as learn a bit about Sandburg’s life, and then use those poems and that information as prompts for writing.  , ...

Award-winning poet and author Ellen Waterston has dedicated herself to writing and advocating for the literary arts in the high desert region of Oregon, all the while continuing to write poetry and nonfiction works that have evolved into essential reading about Oregon and the West. She has published four poetry and fou , ...

A casual weekly meeting of poets and the poetry-curious started in fall 2024. We gather to share poetry—our own and others, classics to hot-off-the-press—in a comfy corner of the Coburg Commons Bookstore & Community Center. Read if you like, or just listen and enjoy. , ...

Poetry open mic reading series, with a focus on remembering the poets who inspired and influenced us, both personally and historically. , ...

Join us for a reading featuring Debra Elisa and Francis Opila.  Debra’s debut poetry collection, You Can Call It Beautiful, is a mosaic of joy and grief, offering glimpses into loss and trauma that shape a family and travel that can open us up to wonder. Debra co-hosts The Humble Poets Open Mic in North Portland. Franc , ...

Kim Stafford writes, teaches, and travels to restore the human spirit. He has published some twenty books, including As the Sky Begins to Change (Red Hen Press, 2024), and has taught writing in Scotland, Italy, Mexico, and Bhutan. In 2018 he was named Oregon Poet Laureate for a two-year term. The Salem Poetry Project c , ...

Make 2025 the year you commit to your writing! Prompt is an 8-week writing group full of freewriting, listening, and strengths-based feedback, hosted behind-the-scenes at Powell’s City of Books! With accountability and community built in – as well as a huge selection of books for inspiration – you’ll be sure to come aw , ...

Make 2025 the year you commit to your writing. Prompt is an 8-week series of connected workshops full of freewriting, listening, and strengths-based feedback. With accountability and community built in, you’ll be able to bundle up all your holiday memories and turn them into beautiful art. Join us over Zoom, and let’s , ...

Charles K. Carter is a queer poet who lives in Oregon. They are the author of The God of Loneliness (Rebel Satori Press), If the World Were a Quilt (Kelsay Books), and Read My Lips (David Robert Books) as well as several chapbooks. Carter can be found on Instagram @CKCpoetry. The Salem Poetry Project continues at the B , ...